Listening skills a mess? Well…

I’ve been finding it super helpful to hit the cram feature and set it to audio questions. Then, choose three grammar points from a level you completely and easily understand, hit “complete mode”, and run the cram. Play the audio for each sentence as many times as you need to catch the whole thing, but if there’s anything you don’t understand, mark it failed.

Then, you work your way up through grammar points three at a time. Read each grammar point’s explanation before you cram it. If there’s a grammar point where you can’t catch a lot of the sentences, run it again the next day, and the next, as many times as it takes.

Cannot describe how helpful this has been to me for my listening skills.

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Awesome suggestion! I think cram is the most underrated feature here. I’ve been using it to practicing reading and listening and not really to quiz my grammar/vocabulary. The graded reader section has been great for that too.

Iknow.jp has a similar feature I really enjoy. You can do a hands free listening only mode. You pick a level you want to review and pick how many reps, and the app plays that many example sentences from your specified level. Can’t mark anything pass/fail, but it’s great (if a little boring) comprehensible input to have on in the background.

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